Course detail

Quotations in a Research Work

FEKT-DPA-CVPAcad. year: 2024/2025

The course acquaints students with the issues of citation (creation of reference, plagiarism, citation analysis, etc.) and the copyright aspects of scientific publishing. In addition, attention is also paid to creative learning techniques, searching for scientific information, evaluating information on the Internet and presenting information. The course is focused on the practical use of scientific resources.

Language of instruction

English

Number of ECTS credits

2

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

Mgr. Tereza Šmilauerová

Department

Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Communication (FEKT)

Offered to foreign students

The home faculty only

Entry knowledge

Not applicable.

Rules for evaluation and completion of the course

For completing the course is necessary to attend 5 of 7 lectures and fulfill the assigned tasks in individual chapters from 50%.

Aims

The aim of the course is to acquaint students with the copyright requirements for their work and the correct referencing to the extent that they are able to pass this knowledge to their own students.
Students will know the principles of ethical use of information. They will be able to create references of various kinds of documents and use reference managers to create them. They will know the copyright aspects of publishing and open access issues. They will be able to search in the electronic information sources available at BUT. They can critically evaluate information found on the Internet.

Study aids

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

Krčál M., Teplíková Z.: Naučte (se) citovat. Blansko: Citace.com, 2014. ISBN 978-80-260-6074-1. (CS)

Recommended reading

Not applicable.

Type of course unit

 

Seminar

26 hod., optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

Mgr. Tereza Šmilauerová